After Lin Changqing slew the hundred-plus alien prodigies with a single slash, he flickered, treading the Walker Without Borders Great Origin Technique beneath his feet, and vanished from where he stood.
The Wings of Time behind him beat as he traversed endless spacetime, fleeing straight toward the outside of Xuan You Grotto-Heaven. He had already obtained what he came for, so naturally he had no desire to linger. If he did not leave now, then when would he?
Clang...
Just as Lin Changqing traversed spacetime, a streak of Sword Light suddenly descended from the nine heavens. Carrying a heart-palpitating sharpness, it forcibly tore through layer after layer of sky and came slashing toward him.
This strand of Sword Light was simply too fast—so fast that even Lin Changqing could not evade it. After forcibly locking onto his aura, it arrived within thirty zhang of him in less than one-hundredth of an instant, countless spatial-temporal planes being forcibly cleaved apart and shattered.
"Not good, someone is launching a sneak attack..."
Lin Changqing's eyes immediately turned cold as frost. With a thought, he unleashed the Great Protection Technique, constructing a guardian world around himself.
At the same time, the Wings of Time beat. Endless Blade Qi crisscrossed through the air, transforming into a surging river of blades that swept forth and collided fiercely with that strand of Sword Qi.
Boom...
The two forces collided, forcibly tearing apart the void at that moment. Boundless energy roiled before both forces perished together.
The heaven-shaking storm swept toward Lin Changqing, forcibly sending him flying backward. Though he steadied himself in but an instant, that moment's delay was enough for a figure to appear in the void before him.
It was a young man with an ancient sword on his back, sharp Sword Intent radiating from